Until Then

by Lee Chang Ming

Until Then is an exploration of what it means to be young and queer in Singapore, as seen through my personal experiences and encounters with those around me. Against the backdrop of a conservative society, the series is an intuitive mapping of our lived realities — a restless search for belonging and intimacy. 
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Published by Nope Fun
Edition of 80
48 pages, full color
193 x 187mm, saddle-stitched
Softcover: 270gsm satin, matte lamination
Body: 100gsm uncoated paper

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notes on weeds: an ode to the unwanted

by Lee Chang Ming

Sections:
Preface
Contingent Weeds
Weeds as queer
Weeds as threat
Weeds as ungovernable
Untangling Weeds

Published by Nope Fun
Edition of 40
16 pages
Risograph printed 1 color (black)
A6: Saddle-stitched
90gsm Stardust White paper

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The Wild

by Lee Chang Ming

These photos were taken during walks in the tropical rainforest of Singapore as part of a larger multimedia project that looks at queerness, the environment, the body, and subjectivity. I used to navigate (and get lost) such jungles while in Singapore’s conscription army, and I have decided to revisit these places. I am interested in deliberate disorientation as an artistic gesture within wild places.
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Published by Nope Fun
Edition of 50
16 pages
170 x 250mm, Saddle-stitched
80gsm bright recycled paper

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The Garden 

by Lee Chang Ming

We think of parks as places of rest and leisure, to escape the hustle and bustle of fast-paced city life in Singapore and to seek refuge in nature, but in fact, these gardens are designed and built by humans and not nature. Parks provide the illusion of the natural world: tamed and pruned for human consumption.

Singapore branded itself as a “Garden City” in 1967 and “A City in a Garden” in 1998. As with many aspects of Singaporean society, even plants are not spared from the strict policies and politics. Parks as controlled environments perhaps then present an appropriate metaphor for looking at tensions between nature and man-made, natural and artifice, authenticity and authorship.

Published by Nope Fun
Edition of 50
16 pages, full color
170 x 250mm, Saddle-stitched
80gsm bright recycled paper

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The Universal Mundane

by Lee Chang Ming

The Universal Mundane is a search for simplicity and beauty in everyday moments.
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Published by Nope Fun
Third edition of 30
Hand numbered and signed
40 pages full-colour
A5: Saddle stitched
Softcover: 270gsm satin, matte lamination
Body: 100gsm uncoated paper

First edition of 50 published in 2014
Second edition of 50 published in 2018

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comfort book for nervous children

by Lee Chang Ming, Dennese Victoria

comfort book for nervous children is a collaboration between Lee Chang Ming and Dennese Victoria. The photos were taken by Lee over the past decade — fragments of memories with friends, traces of feelings and small moments he wanted to hold on to. The photos were passed to Victoria without much context, who provided a textual response that weaves together fiction, poetry, and an open-ended narrative.

This publication was created as the third part of Conversations, a project by Lee Chang Ming for Objectifs’ programme Site Unseen. Conversations explores the relationship between photography, text, and subjectivity. By inviting collaborators to start “conversations” with his photographs, Lee hopes to explore the malleability of the meanings that photographs can have, and what new meanings can emerge when we remove text or add unexpected kinds of words.
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Edition of 50
102 pages full colour
14.8 x 21 cm, Perfect Bound
Soft Cover: 170gsm Maple Bright
Body 80gsm Maple Bright

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Virtue & Virility

by Lee Chang Ming

Virtue & Virility presents a series of images and quotes taken from various gay networking mobile apps. The quotes are taken from the “about me” sections where individuals can introduce themselves. The project seeks to highlight the intriguing ways gay men choose to present themselves in virtual space through photography and text, and looks at questions of masculinity, sexuality and self-portrayal.  

The self-portraits underscore perceived societal ideals of masculinity and sexual desirability; yet their anonymity also depicts an underlying concern of privacy and stigma for promiscuously found even within the domain of queer spaces.
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Published by Nope Fun
Second edition of 50
32 pages
Risograph printed 1 colour (black)
A6: Saddle stitched
Soft Cover: 135 gsm (Candy Pink)
Body: 100gsm (White)

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Beneath the Bodhi & Banyan

by Chu Hao Pei, Lee Chang Ming

This project raises questions surrounding these tree shrines: How did these tree shrines come about? Who removes these tree shrines? And why are they removed?
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Published by Nope Fun
Edition of 50
44 pages, full colour
A5: Saddle stitched
Soft Cover: 250gsm matte art card
Body: 100gsm wood free paper

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The Universal Mundane

by Lee Chang Ming

The Universal Mundane is a search for simplicity and beauty in everyday moments.
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Published by Nope Fun
Second edition of 50
Hand numbered and signed
40 pages full-colour
A5: Saddle stitched
Soft Cover: 260 gsm
Body: 100gsm woodfree

[Available at Knuckles & Notch physical shop.]

Catalan Footballers

by Lee Chang Ming

Who has the power to decide what the image means: the viewer or the creator? How does the medium of photography affect our act of remembering and interpreting the past?  

Featuring a collection of found images of Catalan footballers from the 1960s.
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Published by Nope Fun
Second edition of 50
Hand numbered and signed
16 pages
Risograph printed 1 colour (blue)
A5: Thread binding
Soft Cover: 140gsm (Off-white)
Body: 100gsm (Off-white)

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Duet

By Lee Chang Ming

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Published by Nope Fun
First edition of 20
Hand numbered and signed
8 pages
Risograph printed 4 colour
A6 folded zine / A3 open size

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Staircases

By Khiev Kanel

Staircases looks at the White Building in Phonm Penh, Cambodia, which has since been demolished to make way for a casino. The seemingly unassuming site raises questions of capitalism, urban development, socioeconomics and geopolitics.

Against the backdrop of rapid development and influx of capital from foreign and local sources, Kanel Khiev’s photographs bear witness to the unrelenting changes and its effect on the place and its people.
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Published by Nope Fun
Design by Lee Chang Ming
First edition of 100
Printed in 2019 in Singapore
48 pages
A5: Saddle stitched
Cover: 260gsm (woodfree)
Body: 100gsm (woodfree)
Binding: Saddle stitch

[Available at Knuckles & Notch physical shop.]